The HACER National Scholarship Program, run by McDonald's, is no longer accepting only Latino applicants following a lawsuit filed by American Alliance for Equal Rights.

McDonald's has been making the headlines time and again. Between new releases and collaborations, the global food chain has also been in the middle of controversies.

To settle a conservative group’s discrimination lawsuit, McDonald’s said it will no longer require Hispanic heritage for students who apply to its decades-old Hispanic college scholarship program.

McDonald's said it will revise a program that awards scholarships to Latino and Hispanic students to eliminate any eligibility criteria based on applicants' race or ethnicity, to settle a lawsuit by a group opposed to affirmative action.

McDonald’s HACER program is discriminatory because it is not open to students of all races, a federal lawsuit alleges.

McDonald's settled a lawsuit by revising its Latino-focused scholarship criteria, removing the Hispanic heritage requirement.

McDonald's has agreed to revise its HACER National Scholarships Program to eliminate race or ethnicity criteria, settling a lawsuit filed by the American Alliance for Equal Rights. The decision comes amid growing legal challenges against diversity initiatives,